Job Description
About the Client
Wye Valley NHS Trust is the provider of healthcare services at Hereford County Hospital, which is based in the city of Hereford, along with a number of community services for Herefordshire and its borders. We also provide healthcare services at community hospitals in the market towns of Ross-on-Wye, Leominster and Bromyard.
Our workforce of around 3,000 provides a range of specialist and generalists functions. We have strong clinical network connections with trusts in Birmingham, Worcester, Gloucester and Cardiff.
With an annual turnover of around £295 million, serving a population of 195,000 in Herefordshire and around 40,000 from Powys, the Trust is one of the smallest rural District General Hospitals in England. We work hard to deliver across traditional boundaries to provide integrated care in order to deliver a standard of care we would want for ourselves, our families and friends.
Client - Wye Valley NHS FT
Subdiscipline - AHP
Site - County Hospital
Department - Mortuary
Grade/Job Title - Band 6 Mortuary Technician
Mortuary technicians typically carry out the following tasks:
- Receive the body of the deceased and prepare it for storage
- Maintain accurate records of the deceased
- Record and securely store the deceased's personal belongings
- Prepare the body for post-mortem
- Support the pathologist during the post-mortem
- Prepare tissue samples and specimens for the lab
- Weigh organs as they are removed and record the findings
- Complete reconstruction of the body ready for burial
- Clean and sterilise all equipment used during the post mortem
- Arrange for relatives to see the body of the deceased
- Provide relatives with the death certificate
- Work with funeral directors to release the body
- With experience a mortuary technician may also carry out the following tasks:
- Be trained to identify disease in organs to help determine the cause of death
- Carry out the day-to-day management of the mortuary
- Train, mentor and support trainee mortuary technicians
